Guan Yi Du Nan and the retrogression of humanism in the Yellow River Basin.

If you are a person who is interested in maps, you can certainly find that if the earth is divided into several layers by latitude, the developed countries in the world are generally distributed in several layers near the poles, and the middle layers are mostly paradise for poor and backward uncivilized peoples.

It has almost become a law in the world. In East Asia, where yellow people live in concentrated communities, and in parts of Japan, South Korea and China in Northeast Asia, people live a rich and humane life, but in Southeast Asia on the other side, some ethnic groups even live a slash-and-burn life. Of course, Southeast Asia is not without its merits. The three countries with the most developed humanities in this region: Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia are precisely the three countries with the highest proportion of Chinese. For Southeast Asia, Chinese are immigrants from Northeast Asia.

? There are countless similar examples: North America and South America, for example, are European immigrant countries, and South America's development is ahead of North America; Such as southern and northern Australia; Another example is Argentina in Latin America and South Africa in Africa.

? However, it is wrong to think that latitude is the only criterion for humanistic progress in various countries and regions. There are two natural examples that are just the opposite: in the United States and China. Today, the United States is still the most developed in Northeast China, but the trend of mountains and rivers in Northeast China is obvious. At the same time, there is the rise of the western region and the improvement of southern Florida and Texas. Isn't this against the law of latitude? It can be seen that beyond the latitude, there is a stronger hand pushing the development of regional humanities in the opposite direction.

? Before the rapid development of humanities in the west and south, there was an obvious situation, that is, the influx of a large number of immigrants. Immigrants in the west mainly came from the westward movement, while immigrants in the south mainly came from Cuban refugees who poured into China after the Cuban coup in the 1960s. The same applies to China. Isn't the biggest disproof China's latitude theory on both sides of Huaihe River? The Chinese nation was originally a nation that emigrated, but in history, due to some reasons, such as the invasion of nomadic people, such as the persistent famine in the Central Plains, some people moved out, and sometimes the number of people who moved out was very large. Moreover, before the end of Qing Dynasty, the population of China did not move southward once.

? The immigrant society is so different from the aboriginal society. From a biological point of view, no matter what changes have taken place in the Central Plains: foreign invasion or years of famine, those who abandon their homes and businesses to cross the south must be those who are not so conservative, enterprising and adventurous. After these people arrive in the south, due to the sudden change of environment, a large number of people will die because they don't adapt to the climate, which is another natural elimination. After these two elimination, the rest are the ancestors of southerners today. Needless to say, this group of people in the north left behind after the loss. Naturally, they are a more conservative, inflexible, unwilling to make progress and unwilling to take risks. If the number of such immigration movements is quite large, there are few adventurous nationalists among northerners. The northerners left after the selection are the ancestors of northerners today.

? During the Republic of China, Pan Guangdan once described the quality of immigrants as follows: "From the sporadic immigration behavior among modern provinces, we can also see the superiority of the quality of immigrants. Just because they are sporadic activities, they are not recorded in history books, so fewer people pay attention to them, and their cultural influence on the emigration place and the emigration place is even more ignored. In fact, this kind of sporadic action, from the behavior of one or two people to the atmosphere of a village and a city, can often become the key to the prosperity of a place. Let's just give an example here. Didn't you say that the humanities in eastern Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi were called particularly prosperous from the Southern Song Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty? What about after the middle of Ming Dynasty? At least Fujian and Jiangxi are in decline, and the speed of decline is quite fast, which is unexpected for ordinary people to talk about "cultural communication." "We don't know the reasons for the early decline of Fujian, but it has nothing to do with the overseas Chinese movement in the later period. At least in part, Xinghua, Zhang Quan and Quanzhou have fallen behind the provincial governments. In the case of Jiangxi, we know that its decline is obviously directly related to the emigration of immigrants. What is the destination of immigrants? It is directly Huguang and indirectly Southwest China, including Yunnan. I'm afraid many readers came from Jiangxi at first. Before the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the largest cultural center in Jiangxi was Ji 'an, which suffered the most after this relocation. And the loss it suffered is equal to the cheap share of Hunan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces; The development of Hunan humanities in Qing Dynasty was undoubtedly the contribution of Jiangxi immigrants. In addition, there are many examples to quote. For example, southern Anhui immigrants are in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Lu Zhi immigrants are in the three northeastern provinces. Areas that always accept immigrants take advantage and those that move out suffer. "

? In this way, it is not surprising that China has completely reversed the law of latitude in the world and developed in the opposite direction. It is obvious that northerners are not as good as southerners. It doesn't matter if this difference is only a difference in personality. If this difference is actually biological, it can't be said that there is a way. Perhaps the only way to reverse the widening gap between the North and the South in the future is to find ways to promote southerners, especially the southern elite, to move northward. The best way to achieve this goal is to find a way to keep the capital in the north and prevent it from moving south.

? However, since1980s, we have witnessed an unprecedented migration movement, which is still mainly southward. Southeast provinces and Guangdong alone have absorbed at least 20 million immigrants. In the long run, this will be very unfavorable to the revival of the north, especially the Yellow River Basin. North, I can't see your hope.